Chiral nematic phase of suspensions of rodlike viruses: Left-handed phase helicity from a right-handed molecular helix

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 25, 2006, Pages

  Tombolato, Fabio ^a   Ferrarini, Alberta ^a   Grelet, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE PAUL PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; ELECTROSTATICS; IONIC STRENGTH; PROTEINS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

COARSE-GRAINED REPRESENTATION; COAT PROTEINS; ELECTROSTATIC INTERPARTICLE REPULSIONS; LEFT-HANDED PHASE HELICITY;

VIRUSES;

EID: 33745639488     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.258302     Document Type: Article

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